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	United Nations
		The global nature of trade in illicit narcotic drugs and the internationalization of criminal activities were social ills that became so destabilizing at the end of the twentieth century that member states requested their international organization to implement innovative global programs to maintain security and social justice.
		The Charter vests responsibility for assisting in the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms in three of the principal organs: the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council.
		Following this act, the Assembly called upon all member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories." The full text of the final authorized version follows.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /United-Nations (1090 words)

	Finnish League for Human Rights — Ihmisoikeusliitto
		Finnish League for Human Rights (FLHR) is a religiously and politically non-aligned general human rights organisation.
		FLHR’s principal objective is to monitor and improve the human rights situation in Finland.
		The ideological base of FLHR’s activities is founded in UN human rights covenants and the Council of Europe’s Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
	www.ihmisoikeusliitto.fi /tausta/introduction (189 words)

	What's At Stake: Free Mohamed Abbou: Jailed for Denouncing Torture in Tunisia
		For years the human rights community in Tunisia has been under sustained pressure from police and other state agents, who have thwarted the legitimate activities of judges and lawyers carrying out the duties of their profession, and have violently attacked and intimidated these individuals and members of their families.
		Human rights advocates have been a particular target of repression, with individual activists targeted for prosecution on fabricated charges and subject to threats and physical assault by state agents.
		Independent groups that are strongly critical of the government's human rights practices, such as the CNLT and the Tunisian Center for Judicial Independence (CTIJ), have been refused legal recognition and their activities are habitually obstructed and restricted by the authorities.
	action.humanrightsfirst.org /campaign/Abbou3/explanation (856 words)

	The Amazigh League For Human Rights in Morocco denonce
		The League calls for an independent and unbiased body to supervise the forthcoming elections, for the autonomy of the judicature, for the revocation of the second parliament chamber, for the revision of the electoral register and constituencies, and for the prosecution of any individual involved in spoiling the electoral operation.
		The League expresses its sympathy with the secretary general of the party, Ahmad Dgharni, who has been targeted by a coward assassination attempt; and with all the Amazigh activists in the Moroccan Amazigh Democratic Party and in the Amazigh League For Human Rights targeted in various ways.
		The League considers the recognition of the Amazigh dimension of the Western Sahara issue as the key to preserving the territorial unity of the country and the key to eradicating the separation thesis.
	www.amazighworld.org /human_rights/morocco/index_show.php?Id=706 (1091 words)

	The Arab Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism: A serious threat to human rights - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The League and its member states should re-affirm their commitment to human rights in law and practice, including in the current intensified effort to combat and suppress acts that are classified as ''acts of terrorism''.
		These are rights that cannot be derogated from according to Article 4 of the ICCPR, as confirmed by the Human Rights Committee.(51) In the provisions in the Convention concerning the extradition of criminals, it is stated that extradition has to be in accordance with the principles and conditions stipulated in the Convention (Article 5).
		The Human Rights Committee was of the opinion that the definition of "terrorism" introduced in 1992 should be reviewed, especially in view of the fact that it enlarges the number of offences which are punishable by the death penalty.
	web.amnesty.org /library/index/engior510012002 (11294 words)

	The Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries: Human Rights Organizations
		[ Egypt ] Egyptian Center for Housing Rights: ECHR is a non governmental organization that defends the right to adequate housing, particularly for the poorest segment of the Egyptian society, a right that is essential for human dignity and security.
		[ Egypt ] Land Center for Human Rights: The center was established to defend the rights of the Egyptian Peasants residing in the rural areas from a human rights perspective.
		The objectives of the Palestine Right for Return (PRRC) are educational and charitable and relate to Palestinian Refugees' human rights.
	www.arabhumanrights.org /en/hrorgs/index.asp?oid=2 (2368 words)

	INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
		Human rights violations are routine and living conditions are deplorable because of the stagnant economy.
		Human rights organizations believe that criminal charges were used by the authorities as a pretext to silence him.
		Kleiner believes that the human rights situation in the country is unsatisfactory not only because the police beat demonstrators, but also because the media, most of which are under the government's control, do not make human rights violations public.
	www.ilhr.org /belarus/u47.htm (3305 words)

	Human Rights League Criticises Unions / News - Niassa Web Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Mozambican Human Rights League (LDH) has criticised the country's trade unions for what it regards as their inability or unwillingness to deal with labour disputes.
		Presenting the League's annual report for 2003 to an LDH general meeting, Mabota said that in the entire country the LDH itself had handled 1,370 labour disputes.
		She said the LDH was proud to have taken 164 of these cases to court, where the workers won 95 of them and lost 11.
	www.niassa.net /news/human_rights_league_criticises_unions (299 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		According to the Mozambican League of Human Rights (LDH), in July police were responsible for the death in police custody of Issufo Aly and Carlos Cossa, who was detained after trying to rob a motorist (see Section l.b.).
		The League of Human Rights stated that 14- and 15-year-olds were imprisoned in the Machava central maximum security prison, without being formally charged.
		According to the Mozambican League of Human Rights, the Machava central prison held 2,000 prisoners, its female section held 18 detainees among its 30 prisoners, the Cuamba district prison held 19 detainees among its 25 prisoners.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/mozambiq.html (11071 words)

	Human Rights Day
		The historic document, often labeled a "Modern-Day Magna Carta," outlines the human rights standards the UN believes should be enforced by all nations—among them "the right to life, liberty and nationality, to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to work, to be educated, [and] to take part in government."
		The human rights cause continues to thrive at the end of the century that saw its development.
		Organizations such as Amnesty International (established in 1961) and Human Rights Watch (established in 1978), founded on the principles outlined in the Declaration, have successfully rallied the support of hundreds of thousands of concerned individuals worldwide.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/humanrights1.html (243 words)

	HUMAN RIGHTS
		Human rights have also been the concern of numerous private organizations that have sought to further define and extend human rights (such as to a clean environment), observe their implementation among governments, publicize violations by governments (as of the right against torture and summary execution), or pressure governments to cease their violations.
		Some do, such as certain political and civil rights in democratic constitutions, but internationally these and the other human rights collectively are not what may be presently demanded of a state such that their denial enables legal or international action to be taken against a government.
		Among those nations that most observe human rights, the democracies, war does not occur, domestic collective violence is on average the least, and there is virtually no domestic genocide or mass murder by their governments.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/RIGHTS.HTM (2430 words)

	Libya: The State of Human Rights in Libya
		All human rights reports point to the fact that the arbitrary use of deadly violence by the official military force as well as by paramilitary organizations including "the Revolutionar Committees" and "the Purification Committees" has reached unprecedented proportions and that the rights of life has never been so threatened as it is now.
		In this respect the UN Centre for Human Rights shortcomings are cristal clear especially that Libya is a party to almost all instruments of human rights and should, therefore, have been held accountable for serious breaches of the letter of spirit of those instruments.
		Given the long years of neglect by the Centre of the Libyan human rights situation, it is now too late apparently to prevent violations from becoming serious and widespread as they are already too serious and their practice generalized.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/hrightsc.htm (1180 words)

	International League for Human Rights - SourceWatch
		The League's special mission for 62 years has been defending individual human rights advocateswho have risked their lives to promote the ideals of a just and civil society in their homelands.
		With the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights as its platform, the League raises human rights issues and cases before the UN and other intergovernmental regional organizations in partnership with our colleagues abroad, helping to amplify their voices and coordinate strategies for effective human rights protection.
		This was a reference to an attempted takeover of the Israeli League on November 16, 1972, by several hundred members of the Labor Party youth group who, on party orders, attempted to join the Israel League en masse, expel its elected leaders, and subvert its work in the area of Palestinian human rights.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=International_League_for_Human_Rights (1067 words)

	The International League for Human Rights calls on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to ...
		The International League for Human Rights calls on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to invoke the Moscow Mechanism in relation to Uzbekistan because of its government’s continuing refusal to create conditions for a truly independent and impartial investigation of the May 12-14 Andijan events.
		The May 29, 2005 detention of 15 members of the Ezgulik Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan and the subsequent forced deportation to their places of residence in order to derail a seminar on legislature, which the detainees were planning to attend.
		The League is deeply concerned about attempts by Uzbek authorities and law-enforcement agencies to force the repatriation of Uzbek refugees from the refugee camp near the town of Sasyk in Kyrgyzstan, where they may face persecution, imprisonment or torture.
	www.geocities.com /jack_rossi_1/ihrl.html (1221 words)

	The Human Rights Index for the Arab Countries: Human Rights Organizations by Country
		A former president of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), he is presently the spokesperson for the National Council on Liberties in Tunisia (CNLT).
		Arabic]: The network is a central repository for human rights information and websites in Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
		Arabic]: The Association monitors the violations of human rights in Tunisia and works to defend the rights of the political detainees.
	www.arabhumanrights.org /en/hrorgs/country.asp?cid=20 (300 words)

	International League of Human Rights
		The League's special mission for 65 years has been defending individual human rights advocateswho have risked their lives to promote the ideals of a just and civil society in their homelands.
		The International League for Human Rights cherishes the memory of Father Robert Drinan for his generosity of spirit, kindness, and his work with the League defending defenders across ideological, theological and geographic boundaries.
		The League and CMET have trained over 30 youth journalists, all of whom were victims of the war, to bring the voice of this majority yet marginalized population to policymakers and citizens alike.
	www.ilhr.org (1096 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		They refer to the case law of the European Commission of Human Rights, which held, in the East African Asians case, that immigration admission denied on the basis of colour and race amounted to such a violation of article 3 of the European Convention, and constituted an affront to human dignity.
		Similarly, the Constitutional Court held that "none of the rights granted to the citizens who belong to a minority and enjoy constitutional protection entails an obligation by a municipality to make a certain decision or perform a certain activity, such as the construction of low cost housing".
		In such circumstances, the Committee cannot regard the right of petition as a domestic remedy that must be exhausted for the purposes of article 14, paragraph 7(a), of the Convention.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/country/decisions/31-2003.html (5538 words)

	The John Merck Fund - Human Rights Grants 2005
		Grants support denunciation of human rights abuses; credible fact-finding and research; and negotiation to end conflicts, including those of a rural or ethnic nature.
		To strengthen human rights and democracy in Latin America by building the capacity of lawyers, human rights advocates, government officials and journalists.
		To defend human rights through in-depth research and advocacy with local, national and international government policymakers, nongovernmental organizations and the media.
	www.jmfund.org /human.html (908 words)

	Media Alert \| Colombian Human Rights Leader Ivan Cepeda Wins Roger Baldwin Liberty Award
		Cepeda is the founder and spokesman of a number of human rights organizations including the National Movement for Victims of State Crimes, which consists of more than 200 organizations.
		Human Rights First received many nominations for extraordinary human rights activists from all over the world to receive the award.
		The Award is presented by Human Rights First every other year to a human rights organization or activist outside of the United States that has made a distinguished contribution to the protection and promotion of human rights.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /media/ij/2007/statement/342/\|Read (414 words)

	International League for Human Rights
		The International League for Human Rights is one of the oldest international non-governmental human rights organizations (The League has existed in the United States since the beginning of the 1940s).
		In collaboration with these NGOs the International League for Human Rights has participated in the preparation and presentation of reports on the observance of international pacts and conventions on human rights to treaty organs of the United Nations.
		The Geneva Office of the League organizes visits for representatives of NGOs from former Soviet-republics, to the United Nations Centre in Geneva and to the Directorate of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
	www.mhg.ru /english/18E460F (246 words)

	The Human Rights Blog
		Human rights victims and defenders deserve better from the council – much better." In a briefing paper released this week, “More Business Than Usual: The Work Which Awaits the Human Rights Council," Human Rights Watch profiled serious human rights situations in 26 problem countries from Afghanistan to Iraq and from Sudan to Uzbekistan.
		Santo Domingo.- The Office of the High Commissioner and the Human Rights National Commission of the Dominican Republic on Friday gave their Supreme Award to the Five Cuban Heroes imprisoned in the United States for fighting terrorism.
		The Honourable Mr John Howard and Attorney General Ruddock and Von Dousa QC have collaborated to foster an environment to allow discrimination and Human Rights violations in the Commonwealth public services as evidenced by the Cornelia Rau and Vivien Solon case.
	human-rights.typepad.com (1176 words)

	Human Rights Watch - Business and Human Rights
		Human Rights Watch's letter to FTSE Group asserts that the March 2007 decision to maintain Smithfield Foods, Inc., in the FTSE4Good Index of socially responsible companies was disappointing and raises serious questions about the interpretation and application of the index's social screening criteria.
		Human Rights Watch is concerned, however, that ambiguities in the template could prevent it from reaching its full potential.
		Human Rights Watch researchers don't normally spend their days listening to forty-something Americans talk about their former bosses, but that's what I was doing in March 2005, investigating how Wal-Mart violates its workers' right to form and join trade unions.
	www.hrw.org /doc/?t=corporations (1627 words)

	Morocco scored significant progress in human rights, despite some excesses, league
		Human rights in Morocco have scored during the nineties, a significant progress, marked by the initiatives made lately by King Mohammed VI in this field and that have positively impacted the Moroccan people and the international public opinion, said the Moroccan league for Human Rights Defense (LMDH) in its annual report.
		The league notes further that democratic transition is dependent on the government's will to promote citizens' economic and social rights on and secure the independence and equity of justice, insisting on the role of the civil society and political parties in rooting democratic culture in a comprehensive and sustained development process.
		The league advocated that the issue of women be handled in the frame of the authentic teachings of Islam, guaranteeing to women a privilege statute and all their political, economic, social and cultural rights, and called for a larger representation of women within civil society associations, political parties and international organizations.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/001215/2000121526.html (852 words)

	Welcome to Cairo institute for human rights studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has recently issued a new book in Arabic entitled "no one is protected: the role of the Arab League in maintaining Human rights Protection".
		The book also covers Azmy's valuable contributions in advancing human rights, the foundational documents thereof – on top of which is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – and his role in defending and promoting such rights and firmly establishing human rights discourse in Egyptian cultural and public life.
		He works as a lawyer, human rights activist and he is also the Secretary-General of the Union of Sudanese Writers.
	www.cihrs.org /Publication_en.aspx (1240 words)

	The Lobby League: # 45 Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		She relies on the expertise of Musa, the advocacy director for human rights and international justice who has worked specifically on the military detainee issues; Olson, advocacy director for the Americas; Greenwood, advocacy director for Europe and Eurasia; and Kumar, advocacy director for Asia and the Pacific.
		Human Rights First has propelled itself to the forefront of the military-detainee issue, working with retired military officials to draft letters in support of McCain’s amendments.
		Physicians for Human Rights specializes in medical, scientific and forensic investigations of violations of internationally recognized human rights.
	www.thehill.com /thehill/export/TheHill/Business/110205_league.html (515 words)

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